Posted on 04/30/2009 9:26:18 AM PDT by SlaveNoMore
Now, let me get this straight. Several hundred people get the flu in Mexico and 150 Mexican nationals die, now lowered to seven. A few Americans get the flu, 91 people at last count, but no one dies. A Mexican toddler did die in Houston, but had undisclosed other "underlying health issues."
Even before this number reportedly died US Pravda, otherwise known as CNN, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, etc., hyped the "flu pandemic" story up to astronomical levels. Here we go again! The sky is falling, the sky is falling! BE SCARED! TERROR, TERROR! CRISIS! BE AFRAID! ...
Does anyone buy this line anymore? We have a pandemic alright, a "fear pandemic."
Are you aware that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens die each year from influenza and pneumonia? Excuse me a minute while I change my surgical particle mask and guzzle some more Tamiflu.
What happened to the Hope and Change and "the end of the politics of fear?" If we keep having so many crises, there's really no point in living. I feel like I'm cast in a never-ending soap opera, and I might as well end it all now.
But, is there possibly another motive behind all of this chicanery? As a result of each "crisis" immediate action had to be taken. After 9-11 we received the Patriot Act that allows warrantless government surveillance of not only foreigners but American citizens as well. Who needs the 4th Amendment anyway? We also received the Department of Homeland Security, yet another federal police force. DHS ignores millions of illegals and terrorists openly operating in the U.S. while labeling veterans and conservatives as "terrorists" or "right wing extremists." Exactly when did being right become extreme anyway?
Later, we had the "credit crisis" and we got TARP, or is that TRAP? As a result, the Federal Reserve, a private corporation which is as federal as Federal Express, leaves U.S. taxpayers on the hook for TRILLIONS of dollars without having to explain where the money went. That number is now over 12.8 TRILLION DOLLARS. The Federal Reserve has great power over the value of our money and the direction of our economy and yet does not have to disclose its operations to the American people. In fact, the Federal Reserve apparently doesn't have to answer to Congress, the President or anyone.
There is currently pending in Congress H.B. 1207 calling for an audit of the Federal Reserve, something that has never occurred since its inception in 1913. The bill currently has 100 co-sponsors and may very well pass. I'm certain the foreign banker owners don't want this to happen. Cockroaches do tend to flee when the light switch is turned on!
Recently, the "stimulus" bill, another whopping $787 billion, passed because of the dire emergency. One thousand pages of eye-popping pork that not one congressman even read. The bill had to be passed right away or we would fall off the edge of the earth, even though "The One" didn't sign the legislation until 4 days after returning from his vacation.
Then, there was the uproar over the AIG bonuses. The public was instructed to focus on $165 million in bonuses to camouflage the 10s of billions that were shipped to foreign banks. Remember, they're the Fed, they transfer the money and you pay the amount back the amount lent, with interest of course. Move along there's nothing to see here.
Does anyone else see a pattern here? Everytime there is a "crisis" more of our rights are confiscated and we get the short end of the stick.
Maybe it's time that "we the people" start issuing terrorist alerts, with a focus on the domestic variety. Particularly, the financial terrorists.
Apparently, we're supposed to be frightened out of our minds because of the flu, and the media is now preparing the public for the potential of mandatory flu innoculations. TIME magazine is also soothing the public for this possibility. While discussing the mandatory flu vaccination debacle during President Ford's administration, the TIME article does have an interesting quote by Howard Markel, director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan. Markel states, "the political climate in the U.S. is much less combustible today than in the post-Watergate era, when Ford faced a skeptical public. Even so, he says, citizens still need to trust that the government is working for the greater good." What planet is this guy from?
Now, the federal government has chosen Baxter International to develop a vaccine for the swine flu. Never heard of Baxter? Why this is the same company that gave the world HIV infected treatments in the 1980s and more recently sent live avian flu in vaccinations to 18 European countries. I feel safer already.
So what are we supposed to ignore while focusing on this latest "crisis?" Does the government not want you to focus on the dismal quarterly economic data? The continued rising unemployment? This week's vote on the preposterous $3.5 trillion budget? Forget about the concerns over the unbridled Federal Reserve?
Oh, I forgot. I'm not supposed to think. I'm supposed to be terrified.
Can I have another sip of that Kool-Aid?
Here is the problem.
1918.
Do you believe that was just a manufactured news story?
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, learn the damn difference.
That was 91 years ago. We live in a different world now with a lot more access to much better medication. And so far there’s really nothing to indicate this flu is any worse than any of the annual flues we deal with.
This is a way to gauge how easily the US public can be manipulated by the News. Take a problem. Inflate it into a ‘crisis’ by all manner of apocalyptic rhetoric, and see if you can move the public into taking certain emergency measures. If they do, then you know they are ripe for next move in the Global Warming, or Financial rip-offs.
No there isn’t. But people in 1918 lived in a much different word than say people in 1666. Pandemics are real, they can escalate and kill millions, and for people to say this is a “made up story” are just as reckless as those who claim we are doomed and stir up panic.
Don’t forget the global warming “crisis.” Great post.
Well said.
I have to wonder if this is a “test” against us to see
#1. How far it can travel in a short amount of time
#2. Our reaction to it.
Re BigBro and Germ Warfare/BioWar, etc.
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/re-germ-warfare-biowar-etc/#more-6651
Mexico just asked all non-essential businesses to close their doors for 5 days. For an Obama orchestrated crisis, Mexico sure is bending over backwards.
By the way that same WHO 4/29/09 report that says only seven confirmed deaths says only 26 comfirmed cases of infection. Meanwhile it's spread to over 34 US states.
You're drinking some serious koolaid if you believe Mexico ordered an economic shutdown over just 26 cases of flu.
Really? The Swine Flu is bad enough. This strain has FOUR different virus in it. It's NOT the Swine Flu.
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The world of 1918 wasn’t that different from 1666 really, not when you look at medicine. Pandemics are real, but that doesn’t mean every single bug is about to repeat 1918, there’s a number of good reasons there hasn’t been a real pandemic since then.
So far it IS a made up story. There’s a lot of arm waving and craziness with absolutely ZERO data that shows any of it is justified. Massachusetts just approved marshal law measures with TWO confirmed cases and ZERO fatalities in the entire state. That’s about as made up as it gets.
I’ll be thrilled to find out this was an overreaction, and pleased to see that we (as a society) have an ability to see and react this quickly and forcefully - in the chance something real was imminent.
I grumble about the inconvenience of fire drills and false alarms at work, but I fully understand why they are not to be taken lightly. That’s more or less how I view this.
Make that Martial Law !!!
All flues are combos, that’s how the flu works, that’s why vaccines have to be custom made every year and it’s a complete crap shoot as to whether you’ll be exposed to the one you got vaccinated against. It’s not really 4 different viruses, it has elements of 4 of the major strains of flu.
You’re on the right track.
My wife is the project engineer for a number of hospitals that have major construction under way. They received emails from all of them this morning stating that construction personnel should avoid the hospitals because they were “under code triage.”
This clearly indicates that someone has distributed a talking points memo to all medical facilities.
“That was 91 years ago. We live in a different world now with a lot more access to much better medication. “
We do.
Not everyone does.
Nothing you know about, anyway.
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